Resource Review – R.I.C.
Publications
English
Skills Practice
Useful and worthwhile features:
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Record sheets to monitor and encourage children’s
progress
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Revision questions
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A focus for each unit
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A things to remember page, useful for personal goal
setting and learning to manage their own learning
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Relevant curriculum based content, across a variety of
levels
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Useful as an assessment tool
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Opportunities for extension through timing the tests
or differentiating teaching by grouping children to start at different points
in the resource as per the needs of the group
Less useful or worthwhile points:
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The book is copyright therefore it may be necessary to
purchase one per child, which is a financially nonviable option in my classroom
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It does not appear to tell me what the focus for each
unit is.
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The book contains a wide range of levels therefore
much of it is knowledge above the level of the children I teach
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Answers not included!
How I would use this book in my class:
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Initially whole class, working together, discussing
and defining new vocabulary, making a class glossary poster of meanings of
words such as noun, adverbial etc for children to use as a reference later on
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Differentiating as per the needs of the group,
splinter teaching
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Possibly moving to adding to an independent rotation
and/or a daily warm-up
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I would not purchase a class set, choosing instead to
use as a teaching resource from which to choose appropriate questions, but also
using the revision and test sheets.
New Zealand
Special Days
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Relevant and New Zealand specific content, perfect for
raising students’ awareness of their country.
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Awareness of special days originating from elsewhere
but still celebrated in NZ
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Covers all important and heaps of less common NZ occasions,
including the students’ own birthdays
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Plenty of visuals of NZ icons and features
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Answers are included!
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Student journal pages for students to reflect on and
record their learning
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Easy read, well balanced activities
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Activities designed to develop language and logic
skills
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Useful as an independent reading/language activity at
relevant times over the year, as homework sheets or as a whole class special
activity
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Pages are suitable for wall displays
Less useful or worthwhile points:
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Some pages are quite wordy and therefore less suitable
as independent activities for less confident readers
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The dates for each special day are in tiny lettering
at the very bottom of the page
How I would use this book in my class:
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On particularly special events such as Waitangi Day or
ANZAC day I will probably use as a follow-up activity to a teaching session.
These may be displayed on the wall or in the cloak bay to allow others to
access the information.
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Over the year I will incorporate timely activities
into an independent reading rotation, differentiated for each group by level of
difficulty and/or volume of reading required.
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On occasion I will assign a task as a homework task
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